Amy Sturgis reminds us that today is the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and she gives...
Month: September 2010
Did the Hebrews have a concept of madness? This strange question comes to mind as I read...
It’s fairly common to hear praise for low birthrates. We associate low fertility with high prosperity, more...
I’ve been out of the loop a bit these past couple weeks, helping out peripherally on a...
I read with some dismay the calumny of G.K. Chesterton recently posted on this blog. It seems...
The entertainment industry, apparently not satisfied with turning Dante’s Inferno into an Xbox game, has set its sights...
I’ve been thinking of reviving the Sunday poems here for some time now. This W.H. Auden poem...
True confession: While everyone else seems to love them, I just don’t get The National. They sound...
I’d like to expand on a comment I made below, which is likely to get lost as...
My views on marriage are pretty unformed, but – given the recent Sullivan-Douthat exchange – I thought...
Good grief, but this is some extraordinary writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates: For an African-American like me, the...
Pretty powerful stuff, even if you don’t agree with his conclusion, and by far the most persuasive...
If you’re Catholic or interested in subsidiarity, the idea that social problems should be addressed at the...
Starting a week from today (9/24), I’ll be hitting the road with a friend for a baseball...
Numbers and Deuteronomy complete the Pentateuch/Torah- the books of Moses depicting the creation of the world, the...
I was discussing Kevin Drum’s post on falling crime rates in America and the old Freakonomics argument...
Will is absolutely correct to note that the success of the Anglophone and Northern European governance models...
What do Singapore, the United States, Canada, Denmark, and England all have in common? At first glance,...
This is quite brilliant (via): Besides, for the people who do inexplicably love pennies, think how much...
One common misunderstanding of Miranda — which Scott’s comment displays despite this having been repeatedly pointed out...
